Word: predecessors
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...often, there is a tendency to view critically one generation in light of its immediate predecessor. Baby-boomers who grew up during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam war have somewhat derisively labeled our generation "Generation X"--which, over the years, has come to mean directionless, apathetic, even lazy. Some argue that when they were in college they went out and protested--marched, made noise and, on occasion, found themselves locked up for their principled civil disobedience. All we do, on the other hand, is shop, watch television and complain...
...browser. Microsoft's statement Saturday confirmed that Gates was willing to modify his licensing agreements with computer manufacturers to let them decide which products and services they could feature on their own machines. But Klein wasn't interested in settling for another minor pact reminiscent of his predecessor Anne Bingaman's infamous 1994 consent decree, now widely derided as a sellout that only postponed the day of reckoning. The deal, struck in 1994 and ratified in '95, granted Microsoft the right to sell "integrated" products--i.e., software like Windows that combines more functions than a Swiss Army knife...
...informants approached the family with fresh information about the killing. Meanwhile, county voters elected a new D.A., Lindsey Carter, who was more committed to the case than his predecessor. Two months ago, the state released 132,000 pages of documents from its infamous Sovereignty Commission, a secretive organization that spied on civil rights activists, and prosecutors have been combing those records, in which Dahmer's name appears more than 80 times, for new leads. Last month a state court ordered the Mississippi archives to hand over a 200-page transcript of an oral history Bowers provided in the 1980s that...
Happily, Duke's aesthetic dovetails with Halston's. Like his predecessor, Duke is comfortable with knits and fabrics that drape the body in what he calls a "neo-Grecian look." His clothes are glamorous and luxurious but not outre. They have an American smartness and good sense about them without being dowdy or frumpy. His fall '98 collection featured intricately beaded gowns, skirts and tops, often paired with a coat or sweater of the same color in a softer fabric. It's a look in which almost anyone shines. Marin Hopper, fashion director of Elle, thinks Duke...
...then, in 1991, trade came crashing in. Mexico brought an action against the U.S. under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (the WTO's predecessor). It claimed that American environmental law prohibiting the import of tuna from countries that killed too many dolphins violated international trade rules. And Mexico won. All those hours environmentalists had spent trudging through the corridors of Capitol Hill on behalf of dolphins had been undermined, overnight, by a far-off tribunal...